Spring Creek Health Care Center
1000 East Stuart Street, Fort Collins CO 80525 · (970) 482-5712 · 78.47% estimated occupancy 1Updated: Aug 1, 2020 · By Sara Levinsohn
Spring Creek Health Care Center is a facility located in Fort Collins, Colorado, a city with a population of 175,625 people. With an overall rating of D, this is a lower end nursing home. Fort Collins received a city grade of B, so there are other options in the city worth looking at. Despite all this, one of the few highlights of this nursing home's profile is its impressive nursing score. You can continue reading to learn more about nursing and other category scores
Additional Details:
Accepts Medicare 1 :
Accepts Medicaid 1 : 138 Beds
CCRC :
For profit - Corporation
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Medical Staff Hours Per Patient (2019)
Nurse Quality
Although we didn't give this nursing home a good overall score, we did give it a strong grade in nursing, where it received a B. This is better than most nursing homes in this area. Nursing grades are based in large part on quality and quantity of nursing care. This particular nursing home provided 3.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed better than average in this area. This is often a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can often be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.
Short-term Care Quality
The second best area we gave this facility in any category came in the area of short-term care, where we awarded it a grade of B-. In calculating our short-term care grades, we size up the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists speech therapists and other licensed professionals. This grade is considered to be a solid assessment of the facility's ability to rehabilitate patients. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most nursing homes we looked at. This is usually a favorable sign. Lastly, we looked at the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 33.7 percent of this facility's patients returned home. At most facilities, closer to half of their patients are able to return home so this is below average.
Facility Inspections
This nursing home received mediocre inspections in recent years. We gave them a C in this area. Inspection ratings are tied to datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Deficiencies are a key thing to look for on these inspections. Severe deficiencies indicate a threat to patient safety. This nursing home was hit with 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none were category J through L deficiencies. This tells you that CMS did not consider any of the deficiencies to put patient health or safety in immediate harm or jeopardy. Finally, they also received 51 substantiated complaints in recent years. This is certainly not a great sign.
Long-term Care Quality
This facility's least impressive category is long-term care, which is the last area we analyzed. In this area, we awarded this facility a grade of D. Long-term care scores in this range generally are a bad sign for the quantity and quality of care provided by nurses and aids, as well as the levels of routine medical care available. In addition to considering the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated for pneumonia. This facility vaccinated 68.19408 percent of its residents. This is significantly less than average. Finally, we were stunned by the nursing home's number of hospitalizations. Here we found that this facility fared very poorly with 3.84 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days. Sadly, this figure is more than double the national average.
Overall Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Spring Creek Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of residents who have had a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, which are also known as bed sores, are routinely the result of patients not being moved frequently enough. Better nursing protocols can limit the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Percent of Patients with Pressure Ulcers
Lower is Better
Minimizes Serious Falls
This datapoint is an indication of the percentage of long-term stay residents which have sustained falls which resulted in severe injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating nursing ratings.
Percent of Patients with Serious Falls
Lower is Better
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
This tells you the percentage of residents that have had a urinary tract infection. These infections are associated with poor hygiene.
Percent of Patients with UTIs
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are prescribed to patients for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Sadly, in some situations, increased usage of these drugs may indicate that a nursing home is using these drugs to subdue residents.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
This indicates the percent of patients who were prescribed antianxiety drugs. Antianxiety drugs are prescribed to residents experiencing anxiety or depression.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Managing Depression Among Residents
This is a measure of the percent of long-term residents who are demonstrating depressive symptoms.
Percent of Patients
Lower is Better
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
This is a measure of the percent of long-term stay residents who have received the flu and pneumonia vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be fatal for seniors, making these types of vaccines critical to patient care.
Percent of Patients
Higher is Better
Residents Maintain Autonomy
This metric is a measure of the percentage of long-term residents who required more assistance with activities of daily living over time. ADL's include activities such as dressing and taking a bath. Many would argue this is a measure of a patient's well-being.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
This metric is a measure of the percent of long-term residents that remained mobile levels.
Percentage of Residents
Higher is Better
Hospitalizations
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per thousand days of care. There is usually a correlation between keeping patients out of the hospital and the overall quality of care.
Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
This metric tracks the number of times residents are rehospitalized per thousand days of short-term care.
Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: ER Visits
This datapoint measures the number of emergency room visits per thousand days of short-term care. Staying out of the emergency room is one way to measure the well-being of patients during rehabilitation.
Percentage of Patients
Lower is Better
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
Measures the percentage of short-term residents that saw functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living. Many would argue that this is a reliable measure of a facility's rehabilitation services.
Percentage of Resident
Higher is Better